Post Views: 8 Paul O’Grady – a life in pictures Paul O’Grady as Popeye on The Paul O’Grady Show, one of many TV series he hosted across his career. Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features The TV host and comedian was known as the host of Blind Date and Blankety Blank, and …
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Post Views: 3 The water’s fine … Katya Vysotskaya, 2014. Photograph: Nadia Sablin Return to Russia: magic and mythology in a small village – in pictures Years after leaving her homeland, Nadia Sablin made an anxious return. She found that the village she had grown up in had changed beyond …
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Post Views: 10 20th century Japanese poster art – in pictures Dance Party, 1973, Tadanori Yokoo. Photograph: The Merrill C Berman Collection At a new exhibition at Poster House in New York, a range of wartime and postwar posters are being celebrated, showing a move from patriotism to consumerism and beyond. …
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Post Views: 8 A multi-dimensional performance – one of the designs for Elton John’s final tour. Photograph: Stufish 900 hours at the piano! Designing Elton John’s final tour – in pictures The UK leg of the Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour begins on 23 March. Ray Winkler from the team …
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Post Views: 9 James Norton as Jude in A Little Life. Photograph: Jan Versweyveld A Little Life starring James Norton – in pictures Ivo van Hove’s stage production of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestselling novel opens in the West End this month – take a first look at the show Nathalie Armin …
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Post Views: 13 Contemporary photography at FORMAT – in pictures Wata Na Life (Water is Life) by Sierra Leone photographer Ngadi Smart. Photograph: Ngadi Smart On 17 March, FORMAT opens in Derby, a month-long contemporary photography festival that sees 27 exhibitions open across the city. Here is a sele Better Food for …
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Post Views: 9 ‘Break every rule’: school as you’ve never seen it before – in pictures Lean on me … the artist responds with caustic irony to the rigid Polish school system Photograph: Karolina Wojtas Pins on chairs! Choreographed class limbos! Karolina Wojtas’s art takes aim at the rigid and …
Read More »Nine to five, 24/7: my decade dressing as Dolly Parton – in pictures
Post Views: 14 Nine to five, 24/7: my decade dressing as Dolly Parton – in pictures Everybody loves the ‘Backwoods Barbie’. Especially photographer Alice Hawkins who has spent 10 years dolled up as her heroine – and meeting fellow devotees along the way In an age of political discord, endless …
Read More »C-3POs, Wonder Women and a trio of Alices: the stars of cosplay – in pictures
Post Views: 21 C-3POs, Wonder Women and a trio of Alices: the stars of cosplay – in pictures Three’s company … Alice in Wonderland. Photograph: Thurstan Redding Cosplay is about more than just dressing up – for some people it can change their life. They share their stories with photographer …
Read More »Full of characters: James Cook’s typewriter tributes – in pictures
Post Views: 19 Full of characters: James Cook’s typewriter tributes – in pictures Details from Girl With a Pearl Earring, Frida Kahlo and Van Gogh Self-Portrait by James Cook. All images by James Cook James Cook started making work on typewriters when he was studying A-level art. “We were asked …
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